1.5 pounds off! Yay!
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halimaiqbal00
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Thank you so much to everyone that advised me last week when I posted that I was frustrated at gaining a pound deprive eating under. I took your advices and fracked and weighed everything religiously and it worked! Thanks again
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Congratulations on the loss.
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Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!1
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DeficitDuchess wrote: »Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!
OP stalls really do not exist if you are truly 1000% on point with logging and exercise calories.. it may slow down and you just have reassess; check/tighten logging, make sure not too many exercise calories are being eaten back, assure that you have not become less active in both your day to day and exercise calories.. we will tend to move a little less during weight loss (eating less calories may cause us to not have as much energy as we did before, etc) and as we get smaller, we tend to not burn as many calories as we did when were heavier (you can correct this part by increasing intensity/volume)..
If you want, you can trend your weight so that you can work with the fluctuations, you can use a trending app like Happy Scale, Weightgrapher, Libra.. just an after thought.. 0 -
DeficitDuchess wrote: »Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!
OP stalls really do not exist if you are truly 1000% on point with logging and exercise calories.. it may slow down and you just have reassess; check/tighten logging, make sure not too many exercise calories are being eaten back, assure that you have not become less active in both your day to day and exercise calories.. we will tend to move a little less during weight loss (eating less calories may cause us to not have as much energy as we did before, etc) and as we get smaller, we tend to not burn as many calories as we did when were heavier (you can correct this part by increasing intensity/volume)..
If you want, you can trend your weight so that you can work with the fluctuations, you can use a trending app like Happy Scale, Weightgrapher, Libra.. just an after thought..
Stalls do exist, not sure why you would say they don't.
Not everyone who experiences a stall experiences it because they stop tracking. I sometimes stall for 3 weeks at a time, despite logging completely accurately, and then drop 8 to 10lbs in the following week.4 -
DeficitDuchess wrote: »Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!
OP stalls really do not exist if you are truly 1000% on point with logging and exercise calories.. it may slow down and you just have reassess; check/tighten logging, make sure not too many exercise calories are being eaten back, assure that you have not become less active in both your day to day and exercise calories.. we will tend to move a little less during weight loss (eating less calories may cause us to not have as much energy as we did before, etc) and as we get smaller, we tend to not burn as many calories as we did when were heavier (you can correct this part by increasing intensity/volume)..
If you want, you can trend your weight so that you can work with the fluctuations, you can use a trending app like Happy Scale, Weightgrapher, Libra.. just an after thought..
Stalls do exist, not sure why you would say they don't.
Not everyone who experiences a stall experiences it because they stop tracking. I sometimes stall for 3 weeks at a time, despite logging completely accurately, and then drop 8 to 10lbs in the following week.
It's really not a stall its slowed way down.. if you are in a calorie deficit and on point with everything, you are losing weight.. Its called water retention and the scale weight is masked by a host of variables.
Your weight loss was never stalled, you were losing all along. Have to remember weight loss is not linear.. some weeks you lose and some you do not.. this does not mean you are not losing. makes sense?2 -
I think that by saying stalls don't happen, perhaps you mean that they don't happen without a reason...whether it's water retention, portion creep, etc, there is always something reason for it.3
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Great to hear!! Yay0
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DeficitDuchess wrote: »Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!
OP stalls really do not exist if you are truly 1000% on point with logging and exercise calories.. it may slow down and you just have reassess; check/tighten logging, make sure not too many exercise calories are being eaten back, assure that you have not become less active in both your day to day and exercise calories.. we will tend to move a little less during weight loss (eating less calories may cause us to not have as much energy as we did before, etc) and as we get smaller, we tend to not burn as many calories as we did when were heavier (you can correct this part by increasing intensity/volume)..
If you want, you can trend your weight so that you can work with the fluctuations, you can use a trending app like Happy Scale, Weightgrapher, Libra.. just an after thought..
Stalls do exist, not sure why you would say they don't.
Not everyone who experiences a stall experiences it because they stop tracking. I sometimes stall for 3 weeks at a time, despite logging completely accurately, and then drop 8 to 10lbs in the following week.
It's really not a stall its slowed way down.. if you are in a calorie deficit and on point with everything, you are losing weight.. Its called water retention and the scale weight is masked by a host of variables.
Your weight loss was never stalled, you were losing all along. Have to remember weight loss is not linear.. some weeks you lose and some you do not.. this does not mean you are not losing. makes sense?
Our difference of opinion comes down to semantics. When people say they're in a stall, that usually means "I'm not seeing a weight loss on the scale". Obviously the person is losing weight if they're in a deficit, but if there's no way of seeing it (since a scale is the normal method for measuring weight loss) then showing no weight loss for 3 weeks would be considered a stall.1 -
Oh! And congratulations on getting the scale moving again! It's always a satisfying feeling 1
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DeficitDuchess wrote: »Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!
OP stalls really do not exist if you are truly 1000% on point with logging and exercise calories.. it may slow down and you just have reassess; check/tighten logging, make sure not too many exercise calories are being eaten back, assure that you have not become less active in both your day to day and exercise calories.. we will tend to move a little less during weight loss (eating less calories may cause us to not have as much energy as we did before, etc) and as we get smaller, we tend to not burn as many calories as we did when were heavier (you can correct this part by increasing intensity/volume)..
If you want, you can trend your weight so that you can work with the fluctuations, you can use a trending app like Happy Scale, Weightgrapher, Libra.. just an after thought..
Stalls do exist, not sure why you would say they don't.
Not everyone who experiences a stall experiences it because they stop tracking. I sometimes stall for 3 weeks at a time, despite logging completely accurately, and then drop 8 to 10lbs in the following week.
It's really not a stall its slowed way down.. if you are in a calorie deficit and on point with everything, you are losing weight.. Its called water retention and the scale weight is masked by a host of variables.
Your weight loss was never stalled, you were losing all along. Have to remember weight loss is not linear.. some weeks you lose and some you do not.. this does not mean you are not losing. makes sense?
Our difference of opinion comes down to semantics. When people say they're in a stall, that usually means "I'm not seeing a weight loss on the scale". Obviously the person is losing weight if they're in a deficit, but if there's no way of seeing it (since a scale is the normal method for measuring weight loss) then showing no weight loss for 3 weeks would be considered a stall.
I should not have responded at all. I was was looking to simply help out.. that's all .. I will move on.0 -
DeficitDuchess wrote: »Just remember that your weight'll fluctuate, even when you're consuming less calories; than you burn because of sodium, menstruation (I'd always gain 5 pounds, of water weight; other's less or even more), muscle repair and/or waste (urine/feces). If you haven't seen a total expected loss, in 28 days; then readjust your plan/goals!
OP stalls really do not exist if you are truly 1000% on point with logging and exercise calories.. it may slow down and you just have reassess; check/tighten logging, make sure not too many exercise calories are being eaten back, assure that you have not become less active in both your day to day and exercise calories.. we will tend to move a little less during weight loss (eating less calories may cause us to not have as much energy as we did before, etc) and as we get smaller, we tend to not burn as many calories as we did when were heavier (you can correct this part by increasing intensity/volume)..
If you want, you can trend your weight so that you can work with the fluctuations, you can use a trending app like Happy Scale, Weightgrapher, Libra.. just an after thought..
Stalls do exist, not sure why you would say they don't.
Not everyone who experiences a stall experiences it because they stop tracking. I sometimes stall for 3 weeks at a time, despite logging completely accurately, and then drop 8 to 10lbs in the following week.
It's really not a stall its slowed way down.. if you are in a calorie deficit and on point with everything, you are losing weight.. Its called water retention and the scale weight is masked by a host of variables.
Your weight loss was never stalled, you were losing all along. Have to remember weight loss is not linear.. some weeks you lose and some you do not.. this does not mean you are not losing. makes sense?
Our difference of opinion comes down to semantics. When people say they're in a stall, that usually means "I'm not seeing a weight loss on the scale". Obviously the person is losing weight if they're in a deficit, but if there's no way of seeing it (since a scale is the normal method for measuring weight loss) then showing no weight loss for 3 weeks would be considered a stall.
I should not have responded at all. I was was looking to simply help out.. that's all .. I will move on.
Your point was 100% correct.0
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